Feature article describing types of cloud computing services, advantages of cloud computing, discussion of future trends, and examples of cloud computing in action. “Many CIOs do indeed view the cloud as a key strategy for the future,” write the authors, …
Finding a Place for Twitter in Higher Education
Alarmingly a recent survey of higher education professionals showed that more than half the surveyed faculty members think Twitter has no future in academia or potential use in higher education.
http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=123-1…
Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.
Reflections on Teaching with Social Media
There’s a big difference between allowing the use of social media and requiring it. That difference probably explains the ambivalence of students in Brian Croxall’s courses, and he had them bouncing from wikis to Twitter to Wave. You can’t just …
Illustrated and Narrated Explanation of Creative Commons
The nuances of Copyright and Creative Commons and the differences between them can be confusing. I recently came across this neat little video that does a good job of explaining Creative Commons and what Creative Commons licenses allow or do …
Teachers describe new technology tools in schools
The school day isn’t limited to the “school day” any more, thanks to new tools that are helping students learn 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
http://presspubs.com/articles/2010/05/20/st_croix_valley_press/news/doc4bf47f1332c42142845753.txt…
Technology in the Classroom: Are We Moving Too Fast?
In order to be able to envision the future, we have to be willing to examine the present. It is easy to observe the preponderance of technological growth in today’s society. Children have cellular telephones; we can simultaneously view and …
Are e-books good for studying?
Three universities (Princeton, Arizona State University, and Northwest Missouri State) pilot two e-readers (Kindle DX, Sony Reader), to see how well students could use them for studying. The results were at best mixed, and at worst negative. There were problems …
Twitter for Learning – 55 Great Articles
Hard to believe there could be 55 articles on Twitter in learning, but Tony Karrer has them. He writes, “Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying ‘I don’t get it’ – to feeling like it’s …
College 2.0: More Professors Could Share Lectures Online. But Should They?
There are good reasons to press the ‘record’ button, but uploading to the Internet might desecrate the classroom.
http://chronicle.com/article/More-Professors-Could-Share/64521/…
How to Put Multiple Intelligences to Work in Your Classroom
Incorporating multiple intelligences in your teaching will ensure that you tap into your students’ full potential for learning. By teaching in more “brain-compatible” ways, teachers can engage more learners and educate more authentically and fairly.
Is Higher Education Evolving?
To survive and thrive, living organisms, industries, and institutions — including higher education — must evolve or adapt to changing environments. The slow evolutionary clock speed and failure to adopt contextualized open interfaces in the higher education ecosystem may threaten …
How Does Facebook Work? The Nuts and Bolts
Social networking is the art of connecting with those who share common interests. Facebook is a social networking. People have been “facebooking” each other for about 6 years now, making Facebook the most used social network with over 350 million …
How Twitter in the Classroom is Boosting Student Engagement
Professors who wish to engage students during large lectures face an uphill battle. Not only is it a logistical impossibility for 200+ students to actively participate in a 90 minute lecture, but the downward sloping cone-shape of a lecture hall …
Textbooks, Wikipedia and Primary Source Research
This article shows an experiment on how to use Wikipedia in your classroom. M. Byrne says: “A couple of weeks ago I sent out a Tweet that my students were working on a comparison of Wikipedia articles to articles in …